Hi Stefan,

Thank you for your article.

Concerning problem 14.

There is a case, there two individual sites in the different

web app and both sites have site columns named xyz with same

data types and they want to copy one site

to under the another one. It will fail because duplicate column names,

these columns are created by SharePoint UI, I know if columns

should be created by feature if it is used in multiple sites

but I have a client situation,

I have two questions;

1) I create new site column from content type settings page,

it creates column also it references column to content type

then if I use this content type in my list in both sites import

does not fail when I copy site1 to under site2 because each site

column is referenced by different content types but if create site

column if I create site columns from site settings> site columns page

then if I go to content type then add this column,

import fails. Why?

2)If I create site columns from site settings> site

columns page then If add this column directly to list, it creates

list column and when I delete the site column in order to  successful

copy operation will not cause any problem for the list to edit or

insert items but if content type used in the list(site columns created

by ui then manually referenced to content type), in order to delete

custom site column I need to remove from content type. When I remove

from content type and delete from site, after import operation I am not able to

edit or insert deleted custom site column in the list.My list is completly useless.

What is the work around on this issue?

Thanks and Best Regards

I

(wss 3.0 with service pack 2)

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Hi Stefan,

Your posts have helped me huge amounts in the past with content deployment jobs, but I have hit something that I can't find any reference to anywhere.

A content import job is failing with the following error message. Any pointers would be most appreciated!

Cheers

Gavin

You cannot delete a hidden column. at Microsoft.SharePoint.Library.SPRequest.RemoveField(String bstrUrl, String bstrListName, String bstrFieldName) at Microsoft.SharePointSPFieldCollection.Delete(String strName) at Microsoft.SharePoint.SPField.Delete() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListSerializer.CreateOrUpdateField(SPList list, String fieldName, XmlNode fieldNode) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListSerializer.UpdateListFields(SPList list, Dictionary`2 listMetaData) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ListSerializer.SetObjectData(Object obj, SerializationInfo info, StreamingContext context, ISurrogateSelector selector) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.ParseObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.DeserializeObject(Type objectType, Boolean isChildObject, DeploymentObject envelope) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.XmlFormatter.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ObjectSerializer.Deserialize(Stream serializationStream) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.ImportObjectManager.ProcessObject(XmlReader xmlReader) at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.DeserializeObjects() at Microsoft.SharePoint.Deployment.SPImport.Run()

Content deployment job 'Remote import job for job with sourceID = ae8ad253-69df-4629-bae6-941645045228' failed.The exception thrown was 'Microsoft.SharePoint.SPException' : 'You cannot delete a hidden column.'

Thanks Stefan,

I will debug the export cabs to figure out exactly which list this is and see if I can see what is happening.

The only strange aspect of it is that we are doing an export to a blank site collection! So there is no existing list to update, it must be part of the package that some dependency is applying a modification to a list that has already been imported as part of the same package!?

Cheers

Gavin

Hi Stefan,

Just recently our content deployment, within the production environment, from our source server(within our domain) to our WFE farm(in the DMZ) started to throw an error about the change token.

Deployments had been running daily so I don't see how they could have got out of sync.

Thanks,

Simon

Thanks for the quick reply.

The site has been live for 2 months with content deployment running every hour.

There is no access to the WFE servers by the content editors and the initial deployment was done to a blank site some 4 months ago.

Simon